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Edition “20” Water/ Irrigation Management

Edition “20” Water Management. 

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Edition 18: Cool season grass management during spring/summer

Edition 18: Cool season grass management during spring/summer.

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Edition 17: Warm Season Grass Maintenance

Edition 17: Warm Season Grass Maintenance.

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Edition 16: Revisiting soil health

Edition 16: Revisiting soil health

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Edition 15 – 05/09/2024

The Craziness Of Spring

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Edition 14 – 22/8/2024

Make it Grow! Your guide to establishing turf

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Web22 What Is In Healthy Soil

Edition 13 – 08/8/2024

Nutrients, what are they good for?

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Special Announcement FFRL Partnership – 28/7/2024

Australian Firefighter Rugby League Team & Lawn Addicts partnership

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Aeration

Edition 12 – 25/7/2024

Renovation and Recovery

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Edition 11 – 11/7/2024

FAQ #2

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Warehouse 1

Edition 10 – 27/06/2024

Cool season lawn management

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Hicure 1 L

Edition 9 – 13/06/2024

Building Turf Resilience with Amino Acids

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Benjamin Spring

Edition 8 – 30/5/2024

Managing Warm Season Grass Through Winter

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Superintendent – Lawn Management Plan 1

Edition 7 – 16/05/2024

Devising Your Plan

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Spraying & Consultation By Lawn Addicts[1]

Edition 6 – 02/05/2024

Changing from Granular to Liquid

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Q&a

Edition 5 – 18/04/24

Frequently Asked Questions

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Ultimate Soil Amendment Pack[1]

Edition 4 – 04/04/2024

The importance of Soil Amendments  

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Rye Germination

Edition 3 – 21/03/2024

Autumn Oversowing

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Spring Dead Spot 1

Edition 2 – 07/03/2024

Prevention is better than a cure

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Hydrolink Range

Edition 1 – 22/02.2024

The Unsung Hero – Wetting Agents

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Granular fertilisers and the cold

Granular fertilisers are typically slow-release fertilisers, which means they release nutrients gradually over an extended period. In cold weather conditions, the soil tends to be colder and wetter, which slows down the process even further including  the microbial activity that helps break down the granules and release nutrients into the soil. Additionally, plants tend to …

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Spring Dead Spot

Early Spring Lawn Care

We’re midway through Winter and winter solstice has come and gone. If your like me in the southern states, you’ve had enough of the drab dormant conditions and can’t wait for Spring and the temperatures to increase. Spring is really only a season to define the time of year, what we need to be more …

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Importance of Potassium

Lawn Addicts Potassium Importance

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Soil Jar Test for Superintendent

Soil is comprised of soil particles, organic matter, water, air and living organisms, all of which are important to the overall health of the soil and your lawn that grows in it. There are three primary soil particles, Sand, Silt and Clay and different ratios of these make up the soils texture. Texture relates to …

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Coring

Shallow Renovation (Buffalo & Cool Season)

This process is intended to improve your lawns finish, remove some of the brown layer making it less spongy, lowering the crown of the plants stem back closer to the soil, allowing a season of fresh lush growth.  It’s something that must be carried out during its growing season. The dormancy period is quite stressful …

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Couch Renovation

Deep Renovation (Couch, Kikuyu & Zoysia)

This process is intended to improve your lawns finish, remove as much of the brown layer as possible making it less spongy, lowering the crown of the plants stem back close to the soil, allowing a season of fresh lush growth.  It’s something that must be carried out during its growing season in the warmer …

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Preventative Disease Management

If your anything like me in winter during the dormancy of my lawn, I’m “toey” and a Roman sandal for my lawn to finally wake out of dormancy.  This year just gone, not so much excited, I knew I was in for a ride having a couple of diseases appear badly during dormancy (the worst …

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Oils aint Oils, Prill aint Prill, Granular Fertilisers?

As our lawns are improving they’re becoming shorter and with  tighter canopies as we push our Lawn Addict boundaries, the prill of your granular fertiliser you were using, now is too big and it wont penetrate your lawn to where its needed. Its time to re-evaluate your granular fertiliser. There are varying grades of granular …

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Nutrients, What about them?

Fertiliser Nutrients and their role. For normal growth your lawn needs 16 essential nutrients for healthy development. Some of these nutrients are needed in much larger quantities than others, but regardless of the quantities, they are all crucial to the growth.  These nutrients are essentially categorised into two groups.  Macronutrients are 9 of these nutrients …

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pH Adjustment made simple!

Altering the pH of your soil In a previous article we loosely discussed the impact of the pH of your soil and how easily it can affect the nutrient uptake of your lawn.  So, it’s got the better of you, and you have either brought a litmus test or an electronic meter, either one is …

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